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...decreases the cancer growth, but it also can cause blood clots, cardiovascular complications, and accumulations of fluid in the breasts, Garnick said...
...even as Baby Fae seemed to be demonstrating Bailey's point, critics charged that xenografts are still too uncertain and that other treatments should have been considered. Dr. Moneim Fadali, a cardiovascular surgeon at the University of California, Los Angeles, was one of several physicians to suggest that the decision to use an animal organ may have been "a matter of bravado" and that a human heart "would have offered the child a better chance of survival." Loma Linda Surgeon David Hinshaw explained that he and his colleagues believed that the hope of finding a compatible human heart in time...
...fluctuations. Contrary to the inference in the story, my reference to a "10% to 15%" error refers to the standard margin of confidence used in all professional statistical analysis. The story refers to a 2.8% rise in deaths from heart at tacks. My study reports a 2.8% rise in cardiovascular deaths, which include overall heart disease and also death from strokes, kidney disease and diabetes...
...transform himself into a sleek, 160-lb. marathoner, then anyone could do it. Fixx's 1977 best seller, The Complete Book of Running, converted the masses with rhapsodic sermons on the physical and psychological benefits of his sport. "The most important single indica tor of overall health is cardiovascular endurance, which is what running develops," he wrote. Thus there was irony mixed with tragedy when Fixx died this month at 52 from a heart attack while pounding the road in Vermont. Last week his legions of disciples around the country were suddenly running scared and asking: Did jog ging...
...next day a special exercise cycle was rigged over Benoit's hospital bed, and she began pedaling with her hands to keep her cardiovascular system in fettle. After four days she resumed running, just a mile at first. Next she swam, rode a bike, lifted weights. With a time of 2:31:04, eight minutes slower than her 1983 Boston Marathon record, she won the trial, finishing in tears. Says Bob Sevene, her coach mostly in the sense of someone to lean on: "Joan has this tremendous ability to blank out everything at the start of a race-heat...